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Description.- Country paper thick, rough and white; Devanagari
characters ; sufficiently big, perfectly legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in black ink; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin , sol. 96 blank; condition very good ; both the texts and its commentary complete so far as they go ; the former has the last verse numbered as 8; the last fol. seems to have been pressed against a wooden board having strings
attached to it at equal intervals, Age.- Not quite modern.
10 Author of the text.- Not known. „ „ „ commentary.--Pārsvadeva Gani alias Śricandra Sūri.
As regards this Gaņi, the following observations are made by Muni Caturavijayaji in his Sanskrit introduction ( pp. 30-32 ) to Jaina-stotra-sandoha ( pr. I):
(1) He is a pupil of Dhaneśvara Sûri of Candra kula.*
(2) He was named as Śricandra Sûri at the time he was made “Sūri”.]
(3) He assisted his guru in his composing a commentary on Sad?hasayaga, in Vikrama Saṁvat u71. 20
(4) He had a pupil named Púrņacandra. (5) He is the author of :-- (3) scargaisarat ( Vol. XVII, pt. 3, No. 780 ) (२) चैत्यवन्दनसूत्रवृत्ति () TEESTIUSTIET V. S. 1227 (8) arrêterguignani eat ( Vol. XVII, pt. 2, No. 620 ) (4) arradizia (Vol. XVII, pt. 1, No. 256 ) V. S. 1228. ( ) jasirutatásTiềSTETIT (Vol. XVII, pt. 2, No.449) V. S. 1173(4).
30 () Far99tCIATION ET V. S. 1169 (८) प्रतिष्ठाकल्प
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1 In the printed edition we have 9 verses. So this Ms. is lacking in the lant verse of the text and its commentary, too.
2-3 See DOJM (Vol. XVII, pt. 5, p. 8, fr. 1)
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